Car-seal.



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THOMAS WHITE, OF OGDEN, UTAH, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TQ CHARLES C. WEST, OF 0 GDEN, UTAH.

CAR-S EAL.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 726,809, dated April 28, 1903. Application filed Jnne 11,1902. Serial ltlo.111,17ii. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THQMAS WHITE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ogden, in the county of Weber and State of Utah, have invented a new and useful Car-Seal, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to car-seals.

The object of the invention is to provide a car-seal which, while being exceedingly simple of construction, shall be thoroughly efficient in use for the purpose designed and one which when once secured in position cannot be removed without being destroyed, thereby in a positive manner obviating all danger or possibility of the contents of a car being tainpered with without discovery.

With these and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a car-seal, as will be hereinafter fully described in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like n nmerals of reference indicate corresponding parts, there is illustrated one form of embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the elements therein exhibited may be varied as to shape, proportion, and exact manner of assemblage withoutdeparting from the spirit thereof, andin the drawings- Fignre 1 is a view in perspective of a carseal constructed in accordance with the present invention, showing the position occupied by the parts prior to sealing. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the device sealed. Fig. 3 is a view in vertical section, taken through the lower portion of the seal. Fig. 4 is a detail View in elevation of the blank before being folded. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail View.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the body of the seal, and 2 the loop,.these parts being made integral and the seal as a whole being made of any suitable material, preferably of tin. The loop 2, which constitutes one terminal of the seal,'is folded to present an approximately rectangular structure, with one side left open and normally out of engagement with the body, the terminal of the open side being provided with a downturned lip 3,

as shown in Fig. 1, between which and the body the portion of theseal to be operated upon is inserted, after'which a suitable tool provided with corrugations or crimps is passed 5 5 over the loop portion'a'nd'when closed operates to impart a plurality of transverse bends or crimps 4 through the loop and the portion of the body contained therein and also to fold down the lip 3 upon the crimped portion, as shown at 5 in Fig. 2. The tool that imparts the transverse crimps to the lip is provided with a prong to punch out an opening 6, the metal of the opening not being removed, but the successive thicknesses of the loop and the body portion being hosted, as shown at 7 in Fig. 3, and thereby operates not only to'effect a still further securement together of the loop and the body, but also affords a means by which an ordinary lead seal, such as is commonly employed in connection with carseals, may be associated with the device. It will be readily seen that by the provision of the transverse crimps and the nested walls of the opening 6 it will be utterly impossible to remove the seal when once it has been positioned without destroying it.

If desired, after the lip 3 has been crimped into place solder may be applied, thus to effect its further securemen-tto the body.

While the device of this invention is exceedingly simple in construction, and thus cheap of manufacture, it will be found thoroughly efficient in use for the purpose designedand may be made and sold at a low figure.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A car-seal, comprising a body portion hav- 9o ing at one end a lateral extension to be folded into a loop that is approximately rectangular in cross-section, one side of the loop being formed into a lip that isnormally out of engagem ent with the body portion to pe'rmitlat- 5 era]. insertion of the latter within the loop, the lip being adapted to be folded around one edge of the body portion, and the parts being seeured together by transverse erimps that I myown I have hereto afiixed my signature in operate to bind the said lip against the rear the presence of two witnesses. side of the loop and by orifices extendin r 7 through the members of the loop and through EHOMAS VVHITE' the body portion inclosed thereby, the walls of the orifices being nested.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as Witnesses:

J. W. XV. HALL, THIRZA A. HALL. 

